Constitutional Court abolishes Health Education Curriculum

The Croatian Constitutional Court on Wednesday abolished the Health Education Curriculum, which took effect in February, and ordered that until the adoption of a new curriculum Health Education be taught according to the curriculum that had been in force before the start of this school year. The court assessed the constitutionality of the curriculum at…

GONG “turned” a new page on the old address

11. 04. 2012., Zagreb - Clanovi nestranacke udruge Gong fotografirani u prostorijama udruge na Trgu bana Jelacica. GONG je nestranacka udruga gradjana utemeljena 1997. radi poticanja gradjana na aktivnije sudjelovanje u politickim procesima. Duje Prkut, Nives Miosic, Korana Gacic Fuk, Tina Novak, Tanja Kapusta, Srdjan Novak, Albert Jedrejic, Jelena Berkovic, Danela Zagar, Natalia Mirkovic, Vanja Skoric, Dragan Zelic, Marina Skrabalo, Tamara Capeta, Berto Salaj, Robert Maracic, Iva Pinjusic. Photo: Davor Puklavec/PIXSELL

Explore GONGs’ new web site, much clearer and more attractive, containing more information, that are organized into three main categories: electoral system, good governance and active citizens. In order for information to be of the highest quality possible and for communication to focus on key policies and social processes, the interested public is now able…

Election Innovations Conference

In the year that the European Union has declared the European Year of Citizens, GONG held an international conference on “Innovation Fair Election” under the auspices of the President of the Croatian Parliament Josip Leko 19th and 20 March 2013. National and University Library in Zagreb 9:30 to 18:00 pm. The aim of this international…

Elections and everything that goes along with it: a festival or a travesty of democracy?

“Innovations are key to survival and they stem from the spirit of the society; as a part of democracy, elections and referendums are here to serve to citizens, and the real innovation would be not only to have the authorities amend laws, but to ask the citizens what they think about the laws”, this is…

Electoral innovation – an opportunity for the democratization of democracy

As citizens’ trust in politics and political processes is diminishing on a daily basis and uncertainty is increasing unlike the available space for public debate, democracy is once again in question. One may ask if we live in a democracy at all. But, should we give up or invest our energy into its preservation and…

“New Bill Opens the Door to New Criminal Privatization”

Zagreb, 21.03.2013 - Premijer Zoran Milanoviæ izjavio je danas novinarima da nije prihvatio ostavku predstojnika svojega ureda Tomislava Sauche, koju mu je Saucha ponudio sinoæ nakon što je u medijima objavljeno da je odvjetnièkom uredu u kojem je zaposlena njegova supruga "namjestio" angažman s tvrtkom Plinacro u državnom vlasništvu. Arhivska fotografija od 01.03.2013. godine prikazuje predsjednika Vlade Republike Hrvatske Zorana Milanoviæa tijekom tiskovne konferencije u Banskim dvorima. foto FaH/ Damir SENÈAR /ds

Several civil society organizations, asked by the H-Alter.org portal to give their assessment on the Draft-Law on Strategic Investments, submitted for adoption last week, in an urgent procedure, comment that it would lead the country into a second round of robber-baron privatization and ensures a shortcut to exploitation of natural wealth and resources of the…